Module 5: Assessing Student Projects


What will we do?
  • Explore how rubrics, scoring guides, and checklists can be used to assess 21st century skills, content learning, and higher-order thinking
  • Plan your assessments
  • Create an assessment using the Intel Education Assessing Projects application
  • Revise your student sample
  • Check all of your documents for consistency in meeting your unit objectives
Pair and Share
  • Share your student samples with your Pair/Share group.
  • Request specific feedback from group members
  • Follow the steps for the Pair and Share on pp. 5.01-5.02.

Pedagogical Practices: Involving Students in the Assessment Process
  • We will use the Engage Community group for this activity.
  • Create a document in the Engage Community group following the sample published in the document section.
  • Choose a reporter to record the group responses in the document.
  • Review documents created by other groups and add suggestions for solutions.
Reflecting on Assessment in Your Classroom
  • Do the self-assessment on p. 5.05-5.06.
  • Where do you see areas for improvement? You may want to note one or two in the space provided on p. 5.06.
Reviewing Assessment Plans
  • You will review teacher-created assessment plans to find ideas for your own assessment plan.Look at the samples by going to http://www.intel.com/education/AssessingProjects and click on Assessment Plans.
  • As you look at the samples, consider any strategies that apply to the areas that you want to focus on.
  • Follow steps 3-6 on p. 5.07.
Activity 2: Step 1, Creating Student Assessments
  • Read and complete the steps for Activity 2, pp. 5.08-5.10.
  • By the end of activity 2 you will have created the first draft of your Assessment Summary using the information from you Assessment Planning Table and the Assessment Timeline.
Activity 2: Step 2, Planning an Assessment for My Student Sample
  • Open your student sample and think about
    • What concepts, skills, and knowledge will be assssed?
    • How will the CFQs be assessed?
    • What higher-order thinking skills will be assessed?
    • What 21st century skills will be assessed?
  • Work through the tables on pp. 5.11-5.12 in planning the assessment for your student sample
Activity 2: Step 3, Creating an Assessment for My Student Sample
Revisit your Unit Plan (p. 5.16)
  • Do a self-review of your Unit Plan and any supporting documentation you have created so far.
  • Revise any areas that need modification based upon peer feedback and new ideas that have occurred to you. Use checklists to help you self-assess your unit.
Module 5 Reflection
  • Return to the Engage Community group blog and respond to the Module 5 Reflection prompt.